Thanks for the information. I tried to run mkpasswd, but got the following error message:
mkpasswd: [1326] Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. Do I need to be logged in as a domain administrator to execute this successfully? I tried the above as a local administrator, since I don't have domain administrator access, and that was the error I got. When I logged on as a domain (non-administrator) user and executed the command, I got an "Access Denied" error message. Given that I will need to set a cron job to update the passwd file every few minutes or so, for when users change their passwords, how can I ensure that this happens? I could easily do this in unix by just setting a root or system cron job, which would always execute regardless of who was logged in, but I'm not sure how to do this in windows and cygwin -- i.e., how to make sure it executes regardless of who is logged in, and how to make sure cygwin is running in the first place. thanks for any help.... -----Original Message----- From: "Matt Berney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:51:59 -0800 Subject: re: windows authentication for cygwin sshd Calvin, You can update the /etc/passwd file and /etc/group file with the domain users and groups with the following command: cd /etc /usr/bin/mkpasswd -l -g -d > passwd /usr/bin/mkgroup -l -d > group net stop sshd && net start sshd Use 'man mkpasswd' & 'man mkgroup' for help. --Matt -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
